As U.S. arms sales and military aid increasingly dominate U.S. foreign policy, so too does the secrecy that surrounds the process.
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The Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security are amending their respective regulations to limit asylum claims made by any migrants who attempt to enter the United States along the southern border without first applying for asylum in a third country through which they travelled. The rule would have the effect of sharply limiting asylum claims for non-Mexicans attempting to enter the United States by traveling through Mexico. The rule is available here and below.
While the General Data Protection Regulation may not prohibit California from applying for adequacy, the state faces a more significant issue at home: the U.S. Constitution.
The Ethiopian government’s response to a series of assassinations suggests a possible return to authoritarian policies.
The sitting president of the United States and his businesses are suing a congressional committee to try to prevent that committee from obtaining documents and information from a third party.
Our friends from the National Security Institute at George Mason University stopped by earlier this week for their 3rd edition of Faultlines, to discuss a slew of U.S. foreign policy challenges. Lester Munson, Jodi Herman, and Dana Stroul, all former Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffers, as well as Matthew Heiman, an NSI senior fellow and experienced international and national security attorney, talked about Iran, the G20, North Korea, and what other U.S. foreign policy issues they are watching.
On this date in 1854, the U.S. Navy bombarded and torched the town of Greytown, in present-day Nicaragua. The story behind a resulting federal court opinion reveals much about how presidential naval powers and congressional checks operated in the mid-19th century.
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Our latest data on which institutions the public trusts and mistrusts to protect the country’s security.
The unanimous resolution should lead to increased data collection on people with disabilities in the aftermath of armed conflict and provide them a voice in decisions regarding humanitarian action.
The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing titled “Lessons from the Mueller Report, Part III: Constitutional Processes for Addressing Presidential Misconduct” at 9:00 a.m. on Friday. A video of the hearing is available below and here.
The Verizon-Huawei dispute contradicts a view espoused by many experts, and even the Trump administration, about the relationship between national security and intellectual property rights such as patents.
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A careful reading of the reporting suggests that the U.S. response consisted of three distinct operations.
The second column in a new series on security issues facing Canada.